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With this being a production machine I would suggest finding a test box
with
the same OS and giving it a try or 10 if need be, far safer then seeing
your
production environment going down due to a simple case of oops, wrong
button, but I thought...
If all of that is not possible you could maybe install perl 5.8 next to
perl
5.6 and then simply leave the production environment as is and have the
one
application/script that needs 5.8 use that until you have had a chance to
test the existing applications and scripts with the newer version.
We are currently running with at least two versions of perl on most of our
production machines. The standard with the OS delivered perl version 5.008
and then the one used by the monitoring team 5.6.1. When an application
needs a different version of perl it simply is installed next to the
existing two rather then risking taking a production system or its
monitoring down.
I do not fully agree with that way of working but in a company with +100k
people these kinds of things usually are not up to the people that
actually
work with the software to decide.
Regards,
Rob Coops
On Tue, May 13, 2008 at 11:42 AM, Eko Budiharto <eko.budiharto@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>
wrote:
> It should be ok. I believe there will be no effect after upgradation.
>
> On Tue, May 13, 2008 at 4:27 PM, Anirban Adhikary <
> anirban.adhikary@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
>
> > Dear List
> > I have one sun solaris machine which has installed perl 5.6.1. the
> details
> > of machine is as follows
> >
> > SunOS MARS 5.9 Generic_118558-09 sun4u sparc SUNW,Sun-Fire-V440
> >
> > Now I want to install perl 5.8.8 in this machine. Since the machine is
a
> > production server I need to very careful about the upgradation of
perl.
> > Now
> > my question if i want to upgrade to perl 5.8.8 is there any chance of
> data
> > loss and how do I upgrade it i.e. from 5.6.1 to 5.8.8 ? what are the
> steps
> > for this upgradation procedure ???
> >
> > Thanks & Regards in advance
> > Anirban Adhikary.
> >
>
>
>
> --
> Eko Budiharto
>
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